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Everyone thought Black Kyurem would be overpowered but after testing it resides in OU.

I mentioned earlier that is because it is the Ice-type, which needs some serious work doing on it in my opinion, so the additional benefits were cancelled. Blaziken and Lucario are not Ice. In fact their typing is good.

Wow, just found out all this now.. Mega evolutions eh? Hope there's a Mega Electivire down the line. Make it part Fighting type, that would be cool.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Both Magmortar and Electivire would get Fighting secondary types as a result of Mega evos. Also I will now be calling Mega Ampharos: Megampharos. Rolls of the tongue.

You just perfectly demonstrated my previous point that it is destabilising e game and making them overpowered. GF aren't going to make these Megaevolutions by making their base stat distribution worse, not intentionally anyway., even if the total does not change. They're going to want to make them better, just like Froslass and Scizor you just mentioned. And that's why they are better; as you say better typing, better stat distribution, which will make the overpowered, along with these deadly abilities.

It is true that I believe that the MegaEvos will be more powerful than their previous forms, but not overpowered, as you say they will be. With the vast amount of Pokemon, we'd be hard-pressed to find a Pokemon that cannot be countered by any of the other 650+ Pokemon. Even Arceus, with incredible versatility and highest BST, is not overpowered. In theory, a lot of Pokemon look overpowered, but in reality, they aren't. Kyurem-B is a good example of that. It all depends on their stat distribution and movepools, which we currently do not know.

To be honest, it's nice to see that less and less of the older Pokémon are given changes, modification-based, evolution-based, or otherwise. For any particular generation, there should be some Pokémon in it that have all of their stages introduced in the same generation as it (Totodile, Croconaw, Feraligatr), some Pokémon that receive evolutions later in the series (Togepi, Togetic, Togekiss), and some Pokémon that don't receive evolutions at all (Skarmory is a good example).

I can see that. One thing I do like about Mega Evolutions is the idea that it may "fix" (and I use that loosely) certain Pokemon who need it without just slapping an evolution on them. Though that shouldn't be the only reason for mega evolutions, but it's a nice thing. For any of them, it's a "revved up" version of the same Pokemon, whereas an evolution is an evolution and not the same Pokemon. I have to say, I really don't object.

Let's face it: ferret-esque Pokemon are the most epic Pokemon ever (to me)!!!!!! Why can't Nintendo make ones that AREN'T NU Pokemon?!? One of these guys in standard would make me quite happy.

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...Okay, this thread...I've sat here and watched it grow into a monster. It went from page 7 to page 51 right in front of me...I'm getting fatigued...XD

This subject is easily the most controversial thing to happen to pokemon since I can remember. Like it (YESPLEASEGIVEMEMEGARESHIRAMILLDOANYTHING) or hate it (NOPLEASENOMEGASALAMENCEILLDOANYTHING), I think we'll all remember where we were the day Megas took the threads by storm once October 12th finally hits...whew.

...A wise one once told me love was like a pokemon battle. You can fight it, you can run away from it; or you can end up without any balls when the opportunity arises.

This means the new reign of Pokes with Trick and Knock Off. <3
What a wonderful metagame there will be. There will be blood and items everywhere.

Anyway, I still don't know how to react to this news.

I never thought of that...it does make trick and knockoff more used. OR better yet if they made it so that all or at least most pokemon turn mega using one specific item, it could make covet more used also! Do you realized how much I wanted that move to have use...?

By this point, it's sort of like Game Freak HAS to make Megevos for the remaining pokemon. [...]

Well, when they first made signature held items for specific Pokémon, they didn't make held items for every single Pokémon. People didn't feel like every Pokémon had to have a hold item just for its evolutionary line back then.

It already feels like that to me because they didn't put much effort into making the "mega Pokemon" different from the originals. I don't want Mega forms of all Pokemon anyway. It seems like a waste for Gamefreak to upgrade all the other Pokemon; they should focus on making completely new and original Pokemon instead imo.